A good will or a hidden purpose?

Let your spirit make me new, and I will fall at your feet, and I will fall at your feet, and worship you here.

Where ever we are in our day we can stop and just talk to God he is always beside us in our every day lives, he is walking with us wherever we go.

In him and through him we can do great things. With the Holy Spirit we are urged to do and act on certain thoughts and actions which may begin as a thought but grow to be so much more.

Just the other day I was going through some athletics day pictures from school athletics and I saw one of me and one of the teacher/teachers, quite a funny shot!! And I decided just as a nice gesture to send it to her as these were pictures from a personal camera so they weren't anywhere for the rest of the school to see. So I decided to send it just out of pure joy the picture displays.

I got an email back about 2 hours later but didn't actually read it till about 11pm that night. Summing it up it briefly said
'Thank you for sending me the pictures, I've been having a tough day and it was good to be reminded of the students I love and why I have the best job in the world'
And I must say that touched my heart.
To think by simply emailing someone and receiving an email in return with that kind of depth touches me, and I guess in that way I touched her by sending her the email. I guess in that way God does look after us, in such a simple way as this. God will return you the favor when you least expect it, and when he knows you need it most. That evening I too was having it tough and to get that email just softened a part of me, God used what I did as a nice gesture expecting nothing in return to become something so great for myself.

Do something for someone today and expect nothing back, you may never get a thank you back for doing that good deed but do it because you get joy out of it. If you have the mind set of 'oh I'm going to do this because God is going to reward me, that is giving your action an ungodly purpose' God sees right into the deepest part of your heart, (no not your arteries in your heart) but your soul, your every thought and feeling. He knows, so do an act of love just out of love, just because you can, the greatest gift and reward has already been given to us from God, sending his son down to die as a sacrifice.

What is the purpose of your actions today?